Group members

Prof. Cesare Franchini
Kolingasse 14-16/3.65 1090 Vienna
cesare.franchini@univie.ac.at

Postdocs

Dr. Michele Reticcioli
Kolingasse 14-16/3.66 1090 Vienna
michele.reticcioli@univie.ac.at
Polarons, Surface science, DFT and Machine Learning.
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/michele.reticcioli/index.html#top

Dr. Matthias Meier
Kolingasse 14-16/3.67 1090 Vienna
meier.matthias.001@gmail.com
Surface Chemistry, Adsorption, Polarons, Catalysis.

Dr. Micheal Wollock
Kolingasse 14-16/3.64 1090 Vienna
michael.wolloch@univie.ac.at
High-throughput DFT, Interfaces, Tribology. VASP Software GmbH employee.

PhD Students

Lorenzo Celiberti
Kolingasse 14-16/3.07 1090 Vienna
lorenzo.celiberti@univie.ac.at
Spin-Orbit coupling, Magnetism, Jahn-Teller physics, Polarons.

Viktor Birschitzky
Kolingasse 14-16/3.68 1090 Vienna
viktor.birschitzky@univie.ac.at
Machine learning potentials to analyze polaron dynamics, accelerating DFT-based simulations through data-driven methodologies.

Thomas Hahn
Kolingasse 14-16/3.68 1090 Vienna
thomas.hahn01@univie.ac.at
Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for polaron problems.

Luigi Ranalli
Kolingasse 14-16/3.7 1090 Vienna
luigi.ranalli@univie.ac.at
Assessing phonon anharmonicity through stochastic methods (SSCHA) and Machine Learning Force Field.

Andrea Angeletti
Kolingasse 14-16/3.7 1090 Vienna
andrea.angeletti@univie.ac.at
Electronic and dynamics properties of defective 2D materials.

Stefano Ragni
Kolingasse 14-16/3.7 1090 Vienna
stefano.ragni@univie.ac.at
Polarons, Electron-phonon Interaction, Diagrammatic Montecarlo.

Florian Ellinger
Kolingasse 14-16/3.68 1090 Vienna
florian.ellinger@univie.ac.at
Surface science, DFT, polarons, Strontium Titanate.

Firat Yalcin
Kolingasse 14-16/3.64 1090 Vienna
firat.yalcin@univie.ac.at
High-throughput DFT, Surfaces.

Marco Corrias
Kolingasse 14-16/3.07 1090 Vienna
marco.corrias@univie.ac.at
Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition for Scanning Probe Microscopy, automated microscopy image analysis.

Master Students

Gudrun Poetzelberger
Kolingasse 14-16/3.68 1090 Vienna
gudrun.poetzelberger@gmx.at
Design and optimization of a quantum materials database.

Luca Leoni
Kolingasse 14-16/3.07 1090 Vienna
luca.leoni11@studio.unibo.it
Generative model to enhance sampling of DMC algorithms using Normalizing Flow architecture to perform non local update inside the Marcov Chain to decrease dechoherence between samples.

Jacob Baumsteiger
Kolingasse 14-16/3.07 1090 Vienna
j.baumsteiger@gmx.de
Ab initio investigation of magnetism in solids with the help of Bayesian Optimization.

Mathias Müller
Kolingasse 14-16/3.07 1090 Vienna
mathias_mueller@gmx.at
Application of Dynamic Mode Decomposition to the ab-initio molecular dynamics for solid state systems and in particular to polaron dynamics.